Find out how a major UK hotel chain unified their wildly different sources of data to build a supercharged analytics and pricing engine to power their business. Find out how Cosmos and Databricks helped them get to know their customers, how best to retain them, and how best to keep them happy, all while ensuring GDPR compliance and the right to be forgotten.

With GDPR and the number of data breaches we see in the news, encrypting sensitive data is incredibly important. In this talk we start with the basics of encryption, moving on to look at the ways we can encrypt data in SQL Server and Azure SQL DB.

GDPR is coming, no matter where you are if you are handling data on European data subjects. Laying a solid foundation of data security practices is vital to avoid the potential fines and damage to reputation that being non-compliant can bring.

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SQLBits was started by a group of individuals that are passionate about the Microsoft Data Platform.
There is a breadth of knowledge in the data community that will benefit everyone.
We want to spread that knowledge.

We all work in the data and SQL space, some of us for many years. We have a range of skills and experiences from being given the MVP award by Microsoft, organising user groups and speaking at events around the world.